Apr

9

FriendFeed is about intention

April 9, 2008 | 1 Comment

I was just reading Alexander van Elsas’ piece on FriendFeed and intention. As usual Alexander does a great job digging deep into one issue. This time, it’s what he sees as a major flaw in FriendFeed - the lack of intention in sharing the items that appear in the FriendFeed stream.
Here is why he thinks […]

Mar

25

Friendfeed Launches API

March 25, 2008 | 4 Comments

FriendFeed just announced the launch of the FriendFeed API:
We are very excited to announce the launch of the FriendFeed API, which enables developers to interact with the FriendFeed site programmatically. It’s designed to make it possible for anyone improve FriendFeed or integrate FriendFeed into other applications. You can develop a FriendFeed interface for a mobile […]

Mar

24

Friendfeed and Twitter: Take Two

March 24, 2008 |

FriendFeed’s new ability to allow users to post comments on tweets back into Twitter sure took the blogosphere by storm.
Steven Hodson says that this, together with adding the ability to import Disqus comments, represents a major change in the conversation landscape. Mathew Ingram thinks it is an elegant solution to one of the more vexing […]

Mar

18

Friendfeed: It’s not about killing Techmeme or Google Reader

March 18, 2008 | 2 Comments

Robert Scoble switched his homepage to Friendfeed. That’s a major endorsement for Friendfeed, and while I think his rethoric of Friendfeed as a Google Reader or Techmeme killer is a bit over the top, though his reasons for switching are very interesting:
On top of FriendFeed right now are people I don’t know. No A-listers. I’m […]

Mar

17

FriendFeed Got Search

March 17, 2008 |

When I talked to Bret Taylor from FriendFeed today, he mentioned that they were adding about a feature a week. What he didn’t mention was that Friendfeed was going to add a very good search function as soon as today. I guess this doesn’t come as a surprise, given that FriendFeed was founded by ex-Googlers.
Whereas […]

Mar

13

Big Day for FriendFeed

March 13, 2008 | 3 Comments

Even though there was some controversy around Louis Gray’s post on A-listers joining FriendFeed, it seems that his post, together with the resulting coverage on Techmeme and Robert Scoble writing about it on his blog, brought FriendFeed to a tipping point in terms of getting more mainstream exposure.
Earlier this morning, Gabe Rivera twittered that
“It’s apparent […]

Feb

26

How I Use FriendFeed

February 26, 2008 |

It’s no secret that I have developed quite a liking for FriendFeed since Louis Gray pointed me towards it last December and now that the beta period is over and FriendFeed is open for everyone, I thought I would write a little companion piece to the “How I Use Twitter” post from a few weeks […]